{"video_id":"lHZHCPCI9fU","title":"Samsung copied Apple’s worst idea - Samsung Galaxy XR","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2026-03-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":890,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":8.72,"text":"I've been told that inside this box is concrete proof that no matter how bad","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.68,"end_s":11.84,"text":"Apple's idea is, no matter how colossal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.72,"end_s":16.32,"text":"Apple's failure, Samsung will never miss","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.84,"end_s":20.4,"text":"an opportunity to copy their home. Okay,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.32,"end_s":22.88,"text":"it's the Galaxy XR. Samsung's spin on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.4,"end_s":29.359,"text":"the Apple Vision Pro. And to their credit, there are some things to like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.96,"end_s":31.279,"text":"about it immediately. 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And um","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":744.48,"end_s":750.56,"text":"that's about as long as I can stay in this headset for today. I think I think","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":748.48,"end_s":758.16,"text":"the last thing I'll try then is searching for something in the real","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":752.0,"end_s":761.68,"text":"world with Gemini. So, let's go here.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":758.16,"end_s":762.959,"text":"Let's go here. Move it up a bit. I mean,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":761.68,"end_s":767.68,"text":"that's not really going to be comfortable, but sure. Oh, I never","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":765.04,"end_s":772.72,"text":"taught about the touch controls. So, you can uh long press to center, and then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":770.399,"end_s":776.48,"text":"you can double tap to turn the virtual environment on or off, which I can't do","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":774.399,"end_s":782.079,"text":"right now cuz I'm using Gemini. Okay. Turn on captions. Okay. Share view with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":779.76,"end_s":786.72,"text":"Gemini. Allow. What am I holding right now? >> Okay. You're holding a screwdriver. Do","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":784.32,"end_s":790.24,"text":"you need any help with it? >> I need to know where to get another one.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":788.639,"end_s":793.2,"text":"Screwdrivers like that are pretty common. You can find them at most","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":792.24,"end_s":798.079,"text":"hardware stores. >> Hardware store? What kind of suggestion is that? No, I want this specific one.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":796.8,"end_s":804.32,"text":">> You might have luck finding it at hardware stores like Home Depot or Canadian Tire or by searching online for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":802.48,"end_s":808.56,"text":"a black and orange multi-bit ratcheting screwdriver. Does that help?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":806.48,"end_s":811.76,"text":">> No, that doesn't help. You do it for me. Find a black and orange multi-bit","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":810.079,"end_s":815.36,"text":"screwdriver that looks exactly like this one. It's checking. My screen recording","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":813.44,"end_s":818.32,"text":"is not working, which I suspect is because Gemini needs it. I don't know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":816.88,"end_s":822.079,"text":"that for sure, though. It looks like your video recording isn't working right now.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":820.24,"end_s":825.44,"text":">> Oh my god. No, no, we're not talking about that right now. We're talking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":823.6,"end_s":829.36,"text":"about finding this screwdriver. >> Based on what I found, it looks like it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":827.36,"end_s":834.8,"text":"could be an LTT multi-bit ratcheting screwdriver. >> Yes, that sounds pretty good. Hey, it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":832.88,"end_s":838.48,"text":"thought maybe it's an LTT screwdriver. Where can I get one?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":836.24,"end_s":843.199,"text":">> You can find the LT screwdriver on the official LT store website. I'm happy to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":841.519,"end_s":848.399,"text":"open the website for you if you'd like. >> Yeah. Can you open that website? Look at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":845.36,"end_s":849.839,"text":"that. Okay. Can you navigate to the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":848.399,"end_s":855.6,"text":"region that I'm in? >> I can't directly interact. >> Nope. It can't interact with websites.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":853.199,"end_s":859.68,"text":"All right, fine. Once again, an AI assistant does a fraction of the things","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":857.92,"end_s":865.04,"text":"that you would want it to do, but hey, that's better than nothing. I Oh my god,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":862.56,"end_s":868.48,"text":"it's still talking. You'd think it would detect that I've taken it off my head.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":866.8,"end_s":872.72,"text":"I'm not talking to it anymore. Hold on, I got to turn it off.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":870.639,"end_s":876.0,"text":"40% battery. How long were we here? So, you probably get like two, two and a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":874.16,"end_s":882.399,"text":"half hours out of it. about like Samsung says. There you have it. Galaxy XR","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":879.68,"end_s":887.04,"text":">> for anyone who wanted that. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":885.6,"end_s":890.04,"text":"How bad are the pressure marks on my face?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"I've been told that inside this box is concrete proof that no matter how bad Apple's idea is, no matter how colossal Apple's failure, Samsung will never miss an opportunity to copy their home. Okay, it's the Galaxy XR. Samsung's spin on the Apple Vision Pro. And to their credit, there are some things to like about it immediately. For one thing, while the front looks very similar with its eight outward- facing cameras, six for positional tracking, and then two for high quality pass through, it doesn't have the creepy like eye pass through thing. That sucked and added additional weight. And to their credit, it seems a little bit less heavy. Hey, is that an Apple Vision Pro? Can I see it? Yeah, not by enough that it's likely to make a huge difference, but at least it's less expensive, coming in at around half of the price of the Apple Vision Pro. With that said, I feel like the functionality might be somewhere on the order of half as well. Instead of using Apple's extremely powerful M series silicon, it uses a Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2, which to its credit, Qualcomm claims is much faster than last gen, about 20% on the CPU and 15% faster on the GPU. but it ain't an M5. Let's take a look at the rest of the exterior. So, also in the front is a depth sensing camera that's supposed to help map out the world around you. So, your floor, ceiling, walls, that sort of thing. Two of those outwardly facing spatial cameras seem to be dedicated to hand gestures. So, of course, it's a 2026 product, which means it's chalk full of AI, including Gemini integration, as well as AI assisted motion controls. Though to Samsung's credit, they do give you the option of using controllers. Then again, so does the Apple Vision Pro now. And the cost of Samsung's first-party controllers is about the same as the cost of the PSVR2 controllers that you need for the Vision Pro. What else we got here? Ah, yes, four inward-facing eyetracking cameras. These are for gaze detection as well as interfacing with the menu, which I haven't tried yet, but I am really looking forward to. Couple of stereo speakers. one of these ratcheting style headbands as well as now I saw in my notes there's supposed to be like a removable oh yeah there you go removable gaskets so you can decide if you want more of a completely immersed VR experience or more of a mixed reality XR experience but apparently everything is XR now I don't know since we're in here though one of the biggest highlights is of course the screens regardless of what label you find on the outside of a box. If it's got a screen on it, Samsung is very likely responsible for it if it's on the cutting edge. And this is on the cutting edge. We've got two 4K micro OLED displays that run at anywhere from 60 to up to 90 hertz depending on the experience and your settings. Was someone using this already >> or another reviewer? >> Did they wear a lot of makeup? >> Was it a lady? >> That's after I cleaned it, too. >> Really? Huh? How about that? I don't think this brown marking here is a foundational part of the product. It's unfortunate we can see it there. In spite of Belle's efforts to cover up its presence, we've got spacers here. So, depending on how close you like the lenses to sit to your eyes, you can either put a thick one, a thin one, or no spacer at all. I don't know if I'm going to get away with no spacer because of my uh lashes. I hate it when they smudge up the lenses, but the closer you can get them to your eyes, the better your field of view and the better your immersion. So, I'm going to I'm going to try for it. Was there something that used to be here? Who knows? Cuz we're the second ones to unbox this. Comes with a cleaning cloth. Apple would charge you $50 for this. I don't know if Samsung could say that's like a $50 value in the box, though, cuz they don't charge that much for their cleaning cloth. Oh, speaking of ideas they got from Apple, what do we got here? We've got a type-C to type-C cable that we can use for charging the Yep, you heard it here first, external power brick. Love it. To their credit, it's kind of cool that the cable's detachable. That's That's nice. Which means you can use it for other devices if you want to. So, you just charge this thing up and it's basically just a battery bank. Then, when you want to use your Galaxy XR, you pop this locking type C in here. Oh, yeah. That's pretty nice. Okay. And then you clip this onto the side of the unit. Four microphones. ventilation for cooling. There's apparently a touch interface. This must be it. I haven't tried it yet, but we'll give that a shot. Is it six microphones? Wow, that's pretty cool. Oh, it turned on just like I'm turned on telling you about our sponsor. Are you looking to save some more money on your phone bill every single month without losing any coverage? Well, our sponsor, Tesrations. They offer flexible phone plans for up to, yeah, up to up to $25 a month, and that is on America's largest network with 5G coverage. If you don't need that full 50 gigs of data, you can save even more money by building a plan that works better just for you. So, a wireless service that doesn't drive you crazy, let us tell you all about it. See what I did? Use our link in the video description. >> I can immediately tell that Samsung is a South Korean company. you know, in my usual way that I can tell with anything that goes on my face, they did not account for a more um prominent human horn. So, it just like rests like on my nose. Oh, calibrate eye tracking. Yeah, we can do that. Okay. Do I? Of course, it's the same gesture as Apple because why would it be a different gesture? Apple already figured it out. They solved the problem for you, Samsung. So, this was how I opened up the home menu and then eyetracking and then Oh. Oh, and that's a pointer dot, not a gaze dot. I don't mind that. Oh, this is a good opportunity to show you guys the hand tracking. So, maybe we can sync up what you guys are seeing and what the camera's see. Okay, that >> there's nobody there. I'm on a beach by myself. Okay, I'm I'm touching the sand. Relax. Anyone ever wonder why this never took off as an interface? Oh, right. because resting your hand like this is just way easier. Okay. Hand for gesture navigation. Oh, right hand or left hand. The hand interface is okay. Let's switch over to gaze for a bit. The gaze is a little bit slow. I guess I haven't really talked about the pass through quality yet. It's fine. Yeah, I would even say pretty good. Ooh, you can get notifications from your phone on it, assuming you have a Galaxy phone. And oh, this is another important thing to talk about. While you can use it as a as a as a virtual screen for your device right now, that seems to be mostly supported on Samsung Galaxy Books, which anyone know anyone with a Samsung Galaxy Book? >> No. >> Yeah. Is is not most people. or there's a beta app that allows you to do it on other devices. And that just came out like a week ago. So, I'm going to try that in a little bit. First, I want to go with some kind of native experience here just so I can evaluate the screens a little bit better. Okay. Which of these avatars looks most like me? I'm thinking this one. No, probably not. Probably this one. >> Yeah. See, this is the kind of thing that just Apple gets right and the people who copy them don't. I'm clicking on this avatar. My intent is very clear, right? But no, I have to glance down there and select it. The first option is a fursuit for outfit. At least they know their audience. And a whole bunch of the other options are fursuit stuff. Amazing. Amazing. Also, skin tight leather. Damn, Samsung. Good gravy. Oh, man. When you close an app, it just kind of dumps you into pass through, which kind of makes sense. Hey, this is something it's got over the Vision Pro, at least when it launched as a native YouTube app. All right, let's try some just some of the basic stuff. Okay, I want to make a window bigger. Okay. Whoa. Oh, that's pretty nice. There we go. All right, let's put that giant screen over there, man. That's pretty nice looking. Okay, there. Strong spatiality. That sounds like it's coming from behind me. Oh, it pauses when you look away. Okay, you know what? I don't mind that. I can't say I love that glancing around at the interface means that it never goes away. So, if something's bothering you and you're like, \"Oh man, that annoying interface. I can't stop looking at it. It will just simply never go away. There. If we click. There we go. These screens are incredible. The pass through cameras do not do them justice at all. Man, if I lived alone and I had a smaller nose, there would just be no reason to have a giant TV at all, cuz this is just plain as good or better. Okay, let's fire up Google Maps. I really am getting that bulged out toward me sense. I I don't I don't know what it is. It does not look flat though, and I don't remember noticing anything like that on the Vision Pro. Oh, yeah. Immersive view. Here we go. But whoa, buddy. I am going to enjoy this for as long as I can. Not going to lie, little bit disorientating. This feels like playing with miniatures more than I think anything I've ever tried. Oh, I'll add a 3D effect to a photo. Sure. Here's a random selfie from a previous ShortCircuit. Okay, go immersive. It's spatial view. Here we go. Let it cook. Okay. Yep. It did some background separation. Left some of my hair behind me there. Uh, honestly, worse than I expected. Cool. Why don't we try a game? And the strap is um not the most comfortable thing. There isn't really a ton of foam here and it is resting on my nose a little. I'd say motion sickness is pretty good when I'm just using pass through and whatnot. Google Maps was a little bit nauseating. Like I don't think I could be in here for another 2 hours, but I'm okay. Oh wow. Yeah, this is a game sort of. How do you defeat a worm like that? All right. Neat. Yeah, that's going to be big fat. No thanks. PC Connect beta. This item isn't available in your country. >> Sorry. >> Okay. Well, thanks a lot, Google. Okay. Allows you to use your Galaxy XR as a monitor on your Windows PC. Allows you to play games over Wi-Fi 7. That may work pretty decent. And I can't do it. Unfortunately, with these displays being as good as they are, I could see something like this being quite usable as long as you put on some music to drown out these fans. The seal's pretty good at the nose to their credit. That's pretty cool. But it actually leaks quite a bit here, which is unfortunate. Okay. Um, this is a cool tutorial. They kind of have you use, you know, pointing interactions and gaze and you kind of calibrate everything. And um that's about as long as I can stay in this headset for today. I think I think the last thing I'll try then is searching for something in the real world with Gemini. So, let's go here. Let's go here. Move it up a bit. I mean, that's not really going to be comfortable, but sure. Oh, I never taught about the touch controls. So, you can uh long press to center, and then you can double tap to turn the virtual environment on or off, which I can't do right now cuz I'm using Gemini. Okay. Turn on captions. Okay. Share view with Gemini. Allow. What am I holding right now? >> Okay. You're holding a screwdriver. Do you need any help with it? >> I need to know where to get another one. Screwdrivers like that are pretty common. You can find them at most hardware stores. >> Hardware store? What kind of suggestion is that? No, I want this specific one. >> You might have luck finding it at hardware stores like Home Depot or Canadian Tire or by searching online for a black and orange multi-bit ratcheting screwdriver. Does that help? >> No, that doesn't help. You do it for me. Find a black and orange multi-bit screwdriver that looks exactly like this one. It's checking. My screen recording is not working, which I suspect is because Gemini needs it. I don't know that for sure, though. It looks like your video recording isn't working right now. >> Oh my god. No, no, we're not talking about that right now. We're talking about finding this screwdriver. >> Based on what I found, it looks like it could be an LTT multi-bit ratcheting screwdriver. >> Yes, that sounds pretty good. Hey, it thought maybe it's an LTT screwdriver. Where can I get one? >> You can find the LT screwdriver on the official LT store website. I'm happy to open the website for you if you'd like. >> Yeah. Can you open that website? Look at that. Okay. Can you navigate to the region that I'm in? >> I can't directly interact. >> Nope. It can't interact with websites. All right, fine. Once again, an AI assistant does a fraction of the things that you would want it to do, but hey, that's better than nothing. I Oh my god, it's still talking. You'd think it would detect that I've taken it off my head. I'm not talking to it anymore. Hold on, I got to turn it off. 40% battery. How long were we here? So, you probably get like two, two and a half hours out of it. about like Samsung says. There you have it. Galaxy XR >> for anyone who wanted that. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. How bad are the pressure marks on my face?"}